One of the major challenges in e-learning development is search and discovery of an appropriate learning content, among the distributed content repositories according to the contextual and personal interests of the learner. The technique like conventional keyword-based search appears to be not an efficient approach for searching the resources on the web. According to several researchers semantic web-based educational system has been the promising interaction environment for the next generation e-learning system. The major purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of integrating the Semantic Web technologies into e-learning domain and presents the current state of the art in the area of the semantic web technologies and their integration within the e- learning system. It also discusses some of the important issues that need significant improvement in intelligent e-learning systems.

Metadata, Semantic-Web, E-Learning, Learning Object, Ontology, Issues in E-learning

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